Title:

Letter from John Burton Sanderson Haldane to Francis Crick

Creator:

Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

6 May 1959

Description:

In this letter, Haldane, the population geneticist, evolutionary biologist, popularizer of science, and free-thinking intellectual, raised astute questions about the effect of gene mutation on protein synthesis and the function of nonsense triplets, triplets of nucleotides that do not code for proteins.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 3. Folder: PP/CRI/A/3/2/1

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Awards and Prizes and Molecular Biology

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Legacy ID:

SCBBJZ

NLM ID:

101584582X129

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X129

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966